AVO Turbo Kit Owners Topic

[JD86]

Originally Posted by protpibe

I think that's overkill in my opinion. I doubt much, if anything, comes out of that oil reservoir breather. I'm pretty sure it's just to balance pressure inside the crank case with that overflow tank. The scavenging pump would be sucking all of the oil up out of there before it went through the vent hose.

As I said it's personal preference. I went to the Radium catch cans as I wanted to clean up the front of my engine bay and I didn't particularly like removing the AVO catch can when I had to empty it as it was awkward to do. The oil/air separator was already installed so I just left it in.

Is it overkill? Maybe. Does it work? Definitely.

[FrX]

Just to add my particular fuel to the fire. I have had a Moroso breather can attached to the oil scavenge tank breather line since the turbo was installed roughly a year ago. I check it every once in a while. It has remained bone dry the entire time. When the motor is running, you can actually feel a vacuum pulled on the line from the scavenge pump.

[Astroboy]

Is it fine to run just one catch can ,catching the blow from the rear crankcase, with this kit?


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[protpibe]

@Astroboy My OCD prevents me from running one can, but I suppose it's possible. One can is better than no can I guess? I would run it on the PCV over the breather for sure since it typically sees the most being pushed through to it.

A small update on the 3" upgrade over the weekend. The install was a piece of cake, relatively. My fear was that I was going to have to drop the turbo and header down off of the car to get the down pipe off, but that's not the case. If anyone else is doing this upgrade, just remove the fender splash shield that your skid plate attaches to and you should be fine. You'll need a small wrench or a crows foot to get at one of the bolts when putting the new down pipe on, but the old one comes off quite easy. Also, you'll need to jack the motor up way more than you would have to for a 2.5" overripe install, but it does go in quite easy. I ended up removing both motor mounts to get it up high enough. And finally, fi anyone is wondering what the tab on the 3" overripe bolts to, it's a header stud. You basically just unbolt the header stud, slide it on, then bolt it back down again. EASY!

The fit and finish is good IMO. The only issue i"m having is that it seems like my exhaust was pushed back very slightly, but it's a Perrin 3" which is adjustable so I'll just need to tweak it a bit.

I'm now running a full 3" setup from turbo back with no catalytic converters or resonators and it sounds UNREAL. It's very deep with very little rasp to it. I absolutely love it. Also, the turbo spools unbelievably quick now. Spool starts at around 2100rpm, and it's instantaneous between shifts. Highly recommended!

Here's a comparison between the two exhausts:

[Astroboy]

Originally Posted by protpibe

@Astroboy My OCD prevents me from running one can, but I suppose it's possible. One can is better than no can I guess? I would run it on the PCV over the breather for sure since it typically sees the most being pushed through to it.

A small update on the 3" upgrade over the weekend. The install was a piece of cake, relatively. My fear was that I was going to have to drop the turbo and header down off of the car to get the down pipe off, but that's not the case. If anyone else is doing this upgrade, just remove the fender splash shield that your skid plate attaches to and you should be fine. You'll need a small wrench or a crows foot to get at one of the bolts when putting the new down pipe on, but the old one comes off quite easy. Also, you'll need to jack the motor up way more than you would have to for a 2.5" overripe install, but it does go in quite easy. I ended up removing both motor mounts to get it up high enough. And finally, fi anyone is wondering what the tab on the 3" overripe bolts to, it's a header stud. You basically just unbolt the header stud, slide it on, then bolt it back down again. EASY!

The fit and finish is good IMO. The only issue i"m having is that it seems like my exhaust was pushed back very slightly, but it's a Perrin 3" which is adjustable so I'll just need to tweak it a bit.

I'm now running a full 3" setup from turbo back with no catalytic converters or resonators and it sounds UNREAL. It's very deep with very little rasp to it. I absolutely love it. Also, the turbo spools unbelievably quick now. Spool starts at around 2100rpm, and it's instantaneous between shifts. Highly recommended!

Here's a comparison between the two exhausts:

Nice to hear. I've been driving with my kit for 3k miles with no catch can at all until just last month when finally decided to invest in one. And just today I placed an order for another radium can for my intake blow by. But what about the oil reservoir? Am I suppose to like drain what ever gets in there our just leave it as is?


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[Sportsguy83]

Originally Posted by Astroboy

Nice to hear. I've been driving with my kit for 3k miles with no catch can at all until just last month when finally decided to invest in one. And just today I placed an order for another radium can for my intake blow by. But what about the oil reservoir? Am I suppose to like drain what ever gets in there our just leave it as is?


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The turbo oil reservoir? It's purpose is to have a steady stream of oil flowing through the turbo, it has nothing to do with blow by gases/oil.

The vent hose will take care of any gasses that escape through that route. Tee that reservoir hose into one of the catch can hoses and good to go.

[protpibe]

Yeah you can tee the oil reservoir vent and the drivers side vent by the throttle body.

After looking at the vent reservoir, my guess is that it's to equalize the pressure before and after the scavenging pump. I don't think much oil, if any, comes out of the vent hose.If you want to keep it simple, you can always run the vent line up above the reservoir and stick a filter on it.

[SkAsphalt]

Originally Posted by protpibe

Yeah you can tee the oil reservoir vent and the drivers side vent by the throttle body.

After looking at the vent reservoir, my guess is that it's to equalize the pressure before and after the scavenging pump. I don't think much oil, if any, comes out of the vent hose.If you want to keep it simple, you can always run the vent line up above the reservoir and stick a filter on it.

Exactly what I did.

[protpibe]

To anyone else running the 3" turbo back setup without catalytic converters, are you getting boost creep?

The temp recently dropped here to about 10 degrees celcius, so it may be compounding the issue, but after installing the 3" turbo back setup from AVO, my boost creeps about 3psi over whatever it's set to as it reaches redline. My wastegate now goes from 7psi @ about 3000rpm to just under 10 by the time it redlines.

If you experieenced this, how did you deal with it?

[AVOturboworld]

Originally Posted by protpibe

A small update on the 3" upgrade over the weekend. The install was a piece of cake, relatively. My fear was that I was going to have to drop the turbo and header down off of the car to get the down pipe off, but that's not the case. If anyone else is doing this upgrade, just remove the fender splash shield that your skid plate attaches to and you should be fine. You'll need a small wrench or a crows foot to get at one of the bolts when putting the new down pipe on, but the old one comes off quite easy. Also, you'll need to jack the motor up way more than you would have to for a 2.5" overripe install, but it does go in quite easy. I ended up removing both motor mounts to get it up high enough. And finally, fi anyone is wondering what the tab on the 3" overripe bolts to, it's a header stud. You basically just unbolt the header stud, slide it on, then bolt it back down again. EASY!

Good job on that, it's not easy to do in a garage on jackstands!

[protpibe]

Originally Posted by AVOturboworld

Good job on that, it's not easy to do in a garage on jackstands!

Piece of cake

[Astroboy]

Originally Posted by protpibe

Yeah you can tee the oil reservoir vent and the drivers side vent by the throttle body.

After looking at the vent reservoir, my guess is that it's to equalize the pressure before and after the scavenging pump. I don't think much oil, if any, comes out of the vent hose.If you want to keep it simple, you can always run the vent line up above the reservoir and stick a filter on it.

This is exactly what I did. I stuck a filter on it, I'm just waiting on my second radium catch can to vent the blow by coming from underneath the throttle body. And much like you, the turbo kit gave me quite some OCD, mostly because this is my only car and don't want anything bad to happen. I have faith in avo tho, not one engine failure with this kit yet..
I thank God for this thread

[protpibe]

Originally Posted by Astroboy

This is exactly what I did. I stuck a filter on it, I'm just waiting on my second radium catch can to vent the blow by coming from underneath the throttle body. And much like you, the turbo kit gave me quite some OCD, mostly because this is my only car and don't want anything bad to happen. I have faith in avo tho, not one engine failure with this kit yet..
I thank God for this thread

I think I'll be the first.. I have a water meth kit on order lol.

[Astroboy]

Originally Posted by protpibe

I think I'll be the first.. I have a water meth kit on order lol.

How many miles do you have boosted, and in total on your car? Do you daily drive it?